underisk
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- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 1 hour ago:
Well, permanent because if it gets destroyed it you can’t call it successful, and utopia because you need an ideal to measure success against even if its not realistically achievable.
- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 6 hours ago:
A permanent utopia free from geopolitical influence has yet to be established under any system of government, therefore no government has ever worked.
- Comment on Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article 1 day ago:
So he used an AI tool to “organize” references and it hallucinated crap that made it into the human-written article because he never reviewed the output for accuracy.
This guy writes about AI for a living, he knows it hallucinates, and he even acknowledges the irony but never explains why he thought experimenting with AI was a good idea to begin with. Am I supposed to assume his judgment was impaired by being sick?
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 2 days ago:
Letting them win because you’ve canceled before even playing is also a losing formula. Even if they don’t get awarded monetary damages they can probably at least get their legal expenses covered.
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 2 days ago:
Libel. Taking it down doesn’t undo the damage to reputation which libel is concerned with.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 2 weeks ago:
All the executives invested heavily in AI because they’re easily wowed by things that look impressive but have no substance so they thought it was the next Big Thing. They want it to pay off so they can cash out and get rich(er).
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but I think wanting to fuck children does kind of paint a vivid picture about your general moral character in a way your dietary preferences might not.
- Comment on It's a Furby! 3 weeks ago:
More like fae horror, imo.
- Comment on Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC' 3 weeks ago:
Great; a return to thin clients. How innovative and revolutionary.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 5 weeks ago:
She doesn’t, no. But who do you think she’s going to ask about it when the popup tells her she needs to pay out to store more files? What do you think i would have told her to do before reading this article?
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 5 weeks ago:
She doesn’t know what she accepted man, that’s the fucking point.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 5 weeks ago:
My sister’s brand new Windows 11 laptop came with the user data folders replaced by OneDrive and I very seriously doubt she did that intentionally.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 5 weeks ago:
If the people in question were choosing to use OneDrive in the first place, I might agree with you. Since MS is forcing this crap on everyone it’s their fault when people lose data to it.
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 5 weeks ago:
im sorry but that lever did not have a sharp resonating tremor associated that reverberated into my soul so it is, regretfully, inferior
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 5 weeks ago:
Doesn’t compare to the satisfying click of playing with the forbidden spring loaded metal door.
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 5 weeks ago:
By changing from a company that produces a product for consumers to a company that produces stock value for share holders.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 1 month ago:
I started doing this after my roommate got upset with me because she blindly sat down and fell in. Then she got upset because she interpreted this as passive aggressive.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I sure do love it when people learn the wrong lesson.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 1 month ago:
DLSS has made devs lazy. Why bother optimizing when you can have some whiz bang AI algorithm turn a low res input into a greasy looking high res output.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 1 month ago:
if the US government were actually funded by taxes, everything the government does would be with “my money”
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 1 month ago:
if they’re still around when the financial shell game they’re playing finally comes to a stop. who am i kidding the government will bail them out.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 1 month ago:
what if we cannibalize our long-term viability for a short-term gain says every dipshit in charge of tech hardware manufacturing.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 1 month ago:
Don’t worry bro, the models are getting dumber!
That would be pretty impressive when they already lack any intelligence at all.
- Comment on Mozilla's new CEO says AI is coming to Firefox, but will remain a choice 1 month ago:
it’s insane how many people say they use it for boilerplate in code. it’s boilerplate! it’s called that because it’s always the same!! make a snippet in your IDE. the language/framework/whatever package for your IDE probably has all the boilerplate snippets you could need already. what the fuck is going on
- Comment on Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla 2 months ago:
Voting with your wallet doesn’t work when you are the product. They don’t care about your money when google’s will dwarf any amount individuals could hope to raise, even collectively. Nothing prevents them from just taking both your money and google’s and changing absolutely nothing.
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets 2 months ago:
I genuinely tried to find the source for this but all I got from google were ads for vibe coding and proton’s own AI. So take this half-remembered anecdote with a grain of salt, I guess. Best i’ve got is this
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets 2 months ago:
Well, hope you like AI shit too because the people at proton are in love with vibe coding. Get ready for your data to be exfilled by a prompt injection in a spam email.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 2 months ago:
my dude nobody is using a stolen identity to go to a bar. they’re taking out lines of credit and you don’t have to always present a physical, photo ID for those because there entire industries of creditors that have no physical location. you don’t even seem to be aware of the reasons why someone would bother stealing someone’s identity so if you’d like to continue this argument I invite you to have it with yourself.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 2 months ago:
this “you’d have to make a fake to use it!!” argument is especially ridiculous when you’ve posted on a story about submitting a picture of your photo ID in place of a physical one. and one of the pieces of info you say actually “matters” is literally written on said ID
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 months ago:
series of increasingly large dominoes where the smallest is “NVIDIA releases CUDA” and the largest is “the entire global economy has become dependent on running a useless computer program that tricks stupid people into thinking it can do anything worthwhile”
